Aron Pilhofer and Jeremy Ashkenas introduce DocumentCloud, a powerful new tool for journalists, bloggers and activists at IBM’s Transparent Text symposium. On the abstract level,… Read More »DocumentCloud – improving search for journalists
Ellen Miller, the founder of the Sunlight Foundation, wants to redefine public information as online information. To have government accountability, we need “information for media… Read More »Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller at Transparent Text
Professor Calestous Juma from Harvard’s Kennedy School leads off the annual luncheon series at the Berkman Center with an overview of policy issues surrounding broadband… Read More »Calestous Juma and the future of African communications
My friend Michael Anti posted a tweet earlier today about Chinese artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei: Ai Weiwei to undergo cranial surgery in Germany… Read More »Ai Weiwei, censorship and sacred facts
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Xiao Qiang is a long-time Chinese activist, and now teaches journalism at UC Berkeley, where he leads the China Digital Times project. He introduces his… Read More »Xiao Qiang and Evgeny Morozov with dueling views of digital activism